Ben Childs
Distinguished Engineer at Docusign
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Childs is a Distinguished Engineer based in Redmond with a 15+ year trajectory of building language-aware and scalable systems across Microsoft, Airbnb, and DocuSign. He rose through technical ranks at Microsoft’s Natural Language Group into principal and principal-architect roles before leading platform and engineering strategy at Airbnb and DocuSign. Known for blending deep systems thinking with applied NLP experience, he focuses on turning research-grade language capabilities into reliable, production-grade services. His career demonstrates a pattern of stepping into early technical ownership roles and scaling them into long-lived products and teams. Educated in computer science and physics at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, he brings a pragmatic, data-informed approach to complex engineering trade-offs.
5 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
CS Physics, CS Physics at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (59)
opentelemetry-collector10
proxies10
opentelemetry10
kubernetes9
terraform9
terraform-provider9
security9
nomad9
api-management9
regular-expression9
azure-resource-manager9
azure9
consul9
microservices9
windows-subsystem-for-linux9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ben-childs-docusign/opentelemetry-collector-contrib
Jul 2024 - Aug 2024
Contrib repository for the OpenTelemetry Collector
Contributions:31 pushes, 7 branches in 6 days
ben-childs-docusign/homebrew-tap
Sep 2024 - Sep 2024
Contributions:9 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
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